Space Photos of the Week: New Horizons Breaks a Record for Long-Distance Photography
This abstract glow isn’t just a regular old space photo—it was taken a record-breaking 3.79 billion miles away from Earth. NASA’s Pluto-grazing New Horizons spacecraft snapped this photo of the Wishing Well open galactic star cluster on its way toward its second destination, the Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69. For comparison, the runner-up for distance …